Convert a bound picture or other object on a form to an image

1. Open the form in Form view.
   
   
2. Click the object and then click Copy on the toolbar.
   
   
3. On the Edit menu, click Paste Special.
   
   
4. In the As list, click Picture, or one of the bitmap choices, depending on whether you want to create a metafile or a bitmap.
   
   
5. Microsoft Access converts the object to an image. The bound object frame remains on the form, but you can't open the application that was used to create the object (the OLE server application) from the form. If the object is a sound object, just the icon remains. If it's a video object, just the first frame of the video remains. You can't play the sound or video object.

Notes

• When you make any changes to an object in a bound object frame, you're changing the object only for the current record. To make a change in a different record, move to that record and repeat the process.
  
  
• If you convert the object to an image as described in this procedure, the form will open faster. If you just want to prevent users from editing an object, and performance isn't an issue, you can instead set the Locked property of the bound object frame to Yes and the Enabled property to No.